“…In this study, we focus on the area of UTL by reviewing research topics motivated by innovative developments (Section 2), discussing how data and analytical techniques are integrated in the operations practice and research (Sections 3 and 4), and reflecting on the trends from a business analytics perspective (Section 5). These studies on smart UTL are closely related to the literature on smart city operations (e.g., Hasija et al, 2020;Mak, 2022;Qi & Shen, 2019), which also considers public utilities, safety, healthcare, and education. Moreover, for business analytics in broader OM areas, for example, inventory management and revenue management, we refer the interested readers to more general reviews such as Feng and Shanthikumar (2018) and Choi et al (2018).…”